INTRODUCTION:Ernst J. Dabel, President and co-owner of Dabel Brothers
Productions,
a publishing company specializing in comics and graphic novels—including adapting
novels by major authors such as Dean
Koontz, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jim Butcher, George R.R. Martin, Robert
Jordan, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist, R.A.
Salvatore, Patricia Briggs, Robert Silverberg, Tad Williams, etc.—has recently turned his talents towards writing.
As of now, E.J. Dabel has released
three YA/MG novels through Sea Lion Books
in e-book format: Pantheons,
Albino
and Pantheons:
The Game of the Gods, which the author discusses below. Additionally, E.J. Dabel is also working on seven more books which are detailed in
the following update:

ERNST J. DABEL’S AUTHOR UPDATE:

Most
readers are used to Zeus having
demigod sons. The most popular among them are Hercules and Perseus. High
on Mount Olympus, Zeus would protect
his beloved semi-divine sons and force all the other Greek gods to do the same.
His jealous wife Hera however, would
try her best to kill these illegitimate sons as we’ve seen time and time again in
movies and literature. In my book Pantheons
though and its sequel, Pantheons: The
Game of the Gods, we have a son of Zeus
who is not just a demigod, but a full-blown god, and his name is Isaiah Marshall.

As a
little boy, those who sought to protect Isaiah
from the Darkener of the Sky left him alone and unaided to grow up on the tough
streets. Now as a teenager, Isaiah
has no idea that he is a god or that he is prophesied to overthrow his father,
just as Zeus had done to old Cronos. Suddenly thrust into a world
where the gods of the ancient world have been cursed into teenage bodies by the
Powers-That-Be, Isaiah—along with
his friends Jeremy, Monty, and Pipsqueak—must now not only deal with his sadistic father and the gods
of the Greek pantheon, but also gods from many other cultures (Norse, Celts,
Finnish, Egyptian, Hindu, Asian, etc.) if he has any hopes of winning the highly
coveted Dominion…

1) The first book, The Sympathies of Men, is about a wizard called Arestole. In the beginning of the story,
Arestole is in prison for a crime he
committed thirty years in the past. A soldier serving one of the King’s four
generals comes to see his cellmate, a very unsavory fellow on urgent business. It
is then that Arestole discovers he’s
been in the company of none other than Absa
the Viper, a famous and powerful wizard who was once a member of the Seven
Legends until he was eventually captured and imprisoned for his many atrocious
crimes. The soldier tells Absa that
his general would like to see him. Unfortunately for Absa, he falls dead right there and then. A healer is brought in
but is unable to revive him or discover the cause of death. The soldier is
scared that the general will kill him for having failed his mission. Seeing a
golden opportunity, Arestole tells
the soldier that he could help him by pretending to be Absa. Being left with no
other option, the soldier agrees and brings Arestole to the general. The wizard discovers his task is very
simple: teach the general’s son, who is a useless coward and has no hope of
ever learning how to wield a weapon, to become a wizard or die a most gruesome
death. Arestole has five years to
accomplish his mission. Now those who the real Absa had hurt in the past are coming after Arestole to make him pay in blood. This is a world where wizards
invoke their magic with the power of their imagination. There are no spells to
memorize, ancient arcane books to study from, or magic staffs to contain one’s
magic, only the power of the mind. A wizard whose mental creative juices can
only think of a fireball will not last long.

2) The second book, The World of Shadow, is about Angela
Green, a college student in modern times who dreams of one day becoming a
world famous photographer and making an impact in the world. When Angela meets a strange young man who
invites her to another world, she has no idea that things are about to change
for her in a way she had never expected. At first, she refuses, but then he
tells her about things she can photograph there, which doesn’t exist in her
world. Angela eventually accepts and
travels with the young man to the world of shadow out of curiosity. Once there
she discovers the light of the sun has been stolen by the Lord Elect, and as a result, all life has suffered. The people of
the world of shadow, once in the billions, are now no more than a few hundred
thousand strong. The twenty princes, all brothers, with their armies have
completely surrounded the Lord Elect’s
Tower of Light, the only source of light, for their world’s final battle. It is
to this world that Angela is brought
and the young man offers her a very special camera which, once turned on, will
transport her to anywhere in the world of shadow where the most important
events are happening. In this way, the young man explains, she’ll be able to
take pictures of the end of the Lord
Elect’s era. Things become complicated when some of the princes start to
notice Angela, while the jealous women
of the royal court who wish to become First Wives or concubines after the
defeat of the Lord Elect begin to
see her as a threat. The end has come for the Lord Elect as the twenty princes prepare for the final blow to
retrieve the light of the sun and once more bring life back to the world of
Shadow…

3) The third book, The Golden City, is the second volume in the Albino series. Albino,
the white mouse, wakes up in the middle of nowhere, all of his companions gone
without a trace. Through hard travels, Albino
stumbles upon the golden city where he learns of the hardships of those who
live there and how they are beset by migrating tribes from the far East. Albino soon discovers that the invaders
are trying to escape from the Creeping Doom, which they claim are the spirits
of the dreaded Ma’aldee who were tortured and killed by Loucura long ago.The white mouse must figure out how to stop
the Creeping Doom before it reaches the golden city, but first he must deal
with the invading tribes…

4) The fourth book, The Man Who Lost His Soul, is about a mild-mannered man named Robert Brooks. The story is about the
terrible hardships Robert will have
to go through in order to get back to his wife and child. To get his life back
again, Robert will first have to go to hell and back again…

5) The fifth book, Steelborn, is about a man called Nathan Tanner. At birth, Nathan
was stillborn, then discarded and left for dead in a deserted back alley. A man
finds Nathan and injects him with a strange
fluid that brings him back to life. Years later, Nathan Tanner now works at the Research of Spinal Regeneration of
Bone Marrow at an airbase in West Virginia. When a terrorist group attacks the
base, Nathan finds himself the only
one left to stop them. As they converge on the research facility, Nathan becomes desperate and plays a dangerous
game of cat and mouse in hopes of preventing them from destroying the building
before help can arrive. In the building are thirteen innocent kids whose
parents had signed them up to be the first to try a new spinal cure, which was recently
discovered…

6) The sixth book, A Day of Reckoning, is about John
Timmons, a seventy-year-old man who questions God about the purpose of his
life. John suffers a severe heart
attack and finds himself in an unearthly place where he is told it is his purpose
to save a college student who he’s never met before. When Mr. Timmons wakes up, he discovers that he’s been in a coma for the
past five years! John does find the
person he’s destined to save and he teaches her the only thing he ever
knew…boxing. But just like in life, things never turn out the way we expect,
and Mr. Timmons finds himself going
through an experience, which is beyond his comprehension. This story has heart
and is for everyone who’s ever been told they couldn’t accomplish a goal or a
dream in their life.

7) The seventh and final book is Nick Yu, about an orphan who’s been
adopted by Chinese-Americans. At prom, Nick
meets this girl, Sarah, and whispers
a poem in her ear. From that moment on, Sarah
can never forget him, even years later after college. Nick however, has easily forgotten about her. In fact, he and his
friends play a game where they set up women at lounges and bars with these
elaborate play-acting just to get them to their apartments for the night. One
night though, whether by fate or bad luck, the guys snare Sarah into their little game. Nick
has no idea it’s Sarah, but when the
truth comes out, it sends Nick on a
roller-coaster ride, which will change his life forever and helps him to see
one woman in a way he had never expected…